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...Meet Nielsen’s white knight Before investor Snehal Amin single-handedly halted an effort by Elliott Management and Brookfield Asset Management to take TV ratings group Nielsen private for $15bn over the...
...The ENT process is “really burdensome” and takes so long that, in the end, many foreign companies choose instead to franchise out to a Vietnamese partner, said Baker McKenzie senior adviser Fred Burke....
...Jens Høiberg-Nielsen • Siena, Italy How are you spending the summer?...
...“We are already seeing a fair amount of pushback from a lot of companies,” said Fred Bergsten, senior fellow and director emeritus at the Peterson Institute for International Economics....
...Indeed, sales of physical books rose in the UK for the first time since 2007, with Nielsen BookScan figures for January-November up 5.4 per cent on the previous year....
...But he said it was also in line with other signs of renewed discretionary spending, such as stronger sales at Kroger’s Fred Meyer jewellery chain, and improving sales of flowers and speciality coffee....
...As an example of the sort of diversification the consultancies have to consider nowadays, McKinsey last week announced a joint venture with Nielsen, the research business, and its social media monitoring...
...Just over 21.5m people watched the second night of the Republican Convention, according to Nielsen, the audience measurement group....
...As Erik Nielsen, chief European economist at Goldman Sachs, points out, it is “difficult to identify whether a vicious circle is happening yet”, as part of banks’ current lending represents the enforced...
...Mr Navab was one of the lead dealmakers involved in KKR’s acquisition of Dutch media company Nielsen, formerly known as VNU....
...“Everyone says that technology is a threat but we are not sure that is true,” says Fred Reynolds, chief financial officer of CBS. It has clearly shown the value of the biggest shows....
...Then, more controversially, it injected $176m, or about 8 per cent of its total fund, into KKR’s buy-out of Fred Meyer, one of the region’s largest supermarket chains....
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